Food Hub
'Nourishing potential, one bite at a time'
Lisburne Food Hub, a dedicated school focus, concentrating on making food a positive and enriching part of every child’s learning journey.
What is the food Hub?
The Food Hub is a team and strategic initiative that drives our core vision across the school: For all children at Lisburne to have regular exposure to food-based learning activities, enhancing their opportunities to desensitize to a range of foods.
The team champions and coordinates hands-on, food-based learning activities facilitated throughout the school environment. Our unique approach focuses on gradual food exposure designed specifically for our students. This helps to lower anxiety around unfamiliar foods, creating a positive pathway for new items to eventually be accepted within a child’s diet.
Why is the Food Hub important for Lisburne School?
The Food Hub Initiative is vital to the holistic development of our children, because it directly addresses common sensory and anxiety-related challenges around eating by ensuring a cohesive, professional, and individualised approach:
Consistency through staff training: A core goal is to ensure that all staff feel equipped with the knowledge and skills to recognise food-related concerns and follow appropriate routes to support all children. The Hub provides the training necessary for a consistent approach across the school.
Professional Partnerships: The Hub maintains essential links with wider professionals, such as Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and health professionals. This collaboration allows us to access specialised knowledge, ensuring that the strategies used in school are informed by expert clinical practice and truly individualised to each child's needs.
Cohesive Stakeholder Communication: We ensure clear communication with all stakeholders, particularly parents and carers and wider professionals. By sharing goals, progress, and strategies between the HUB members, external professionals, and home, we ensure a unified, supportive environment that maximizes a child’s progress in overcoming food-related challenges. This is highlighted by our termly food strategies led by HUB leads.
The Lisburne Food Hub is committed to turning potential challenges into exciting learning opportunities, helping every child feel comfortable, confident, and nourished.
